node.js body parsing middleware
Questions tagged [body-parser]
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What does body-parser do with express?
I don't understand why we need body-parser in an Express application, as we can get data without using body-parser.
And what does it do actually and how?
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What does 'extended' mean in express 4.0?
I'm using express and also body-parser in my app.
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: false }));
But, What does 'extended' mean in express 4.0?
I found this
extended - parse extended syntax with the qs module.
However, I still can't…
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BodyParser is deprecated
As the image shown, BodyParser now is deprecated, how to correct the bodyParser syntax or statement to remove the line-through?
Fu Nian Wong
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What does `app.use(bodyParser.json())` do?
For:
bodyParser.urlencoded({extended: ...})
my research shows me that if extended: true, then you can parse nested objects, or generally any type. However, if you set extended: false, then you can only parse strings or arrays. But what does…
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Node.js (with express & bodyParser): unable to obtain form-data from post request
I can't seem to recover the form-data of a post request sent to my Node.js server. I've put below the server code and the post request (sent using postman in chrome):
Post request
POST /api/login HTTP/1.1
Host: localhost:8080
Cache-Control:…
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fetch() POST request to Express.js generates empty body {}
Goal: send some defined string data from HTML in a fetch() function e.g. "MY DATA"
My code:
HTML